The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-08-06
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extensive Western trip.
A CHURCH organ constructed entirely Of
paper Is on exhibition at Milan.
ANOTHER month like July and emigra-
tion to Iceland would be popular
Some one in New York advertises for
one hundred white banjo players.
Ar last report Iowa's old soldiers in her
poor-houscs numbered but sixty-four.
THE President refuses to pardon James
D. Fish, tire New York bank criminal.
A BILL to make lying q penal offcnse Is
pending before'the Texas Legislature.
EIGHT hundred women are engaged in
the cattle-raising business IN Colorado.
The King of Spain is fourteen months
old, and draws a salary as monarch OF ST.
$4,000 per year.
UNCLE SAM owns s75,0O0,0O0 worth OF
buildings in the country, and neither pays
tax or insurance.
The Celtic language is spoken by nearly
$4,000 people in Ireland, $4,000 Of whom
can speak no other.
PRoF. PRocroR says that but for tho
house fly epidemics would carry of one
million people per year.
SITTING BULL is living a life of laziness
1t Standing Rock agency. He glories in
bis victory over Custer.
FRENCH soldiers are wearing the Bou-
LANCER beard, as they did the imperial cut
under the last Napoleon.
BUFFALO BILL and his entire troop Of In.
dams attended church the other day in
London, in full war paint.
THE Czar's highest aim is to be crowned
emperor of Asia" on the site of the Holy
Sepulcher of Jerusalem.
MISS BATcHELLER, of Saratoga, speaks
eight different languages tiuently. She Is
but seventeen years of age.
COUNTERFEIT currency of various kinds
Is reported to be in circulation again in diff
ferent parts of the country.
AMONG the many singular businesses
carried on in New York is that OF buying
duplicate wedding presents.
MRS. DANIELS, wife of the captain of the
English steamer Water Lily, has just been
licensed as pilot of that craft.
An enterprising Western genius has sue
>ceeded in producing fair article of illum-
.2ting gas from potato bugs
IT is asserted upon high authority that
witchcraft is believed in and practiced
still in some parts of England.
EVERY tenement house in Boston, the
president of the board of health of that
city states, is visited once week.
PHILLIP HENsEN, Corinth, Miss, is sixty
years old, six feet and two inches tall and
has beard that touches the ground.
A BRASS BAND, whose fourteen members
are all newsboys, exists in New Orleans,
and its services Are in great demand.
FASHIONABLE Newport women have
taken to wearing white muslin gowns
having natural flowers sewed all over the
skirts.
CONGRESSMAN PHELAN, of Memphis, is
the youngest member of the Fiftieth Con-
1eas- He wilfnot be thirty-one when he
04kes his seat.
IT is an estimate Of an intelligent China
man that there are now ten thousand of
his almond-eyed countrymen in New York
and Brooklyn.
COMMODORE MUTT, who rivaled Tom
Thumb as dwarf some years ago, is sell.
ing tickets for dime museum in Boston.
He is g>ay haired.
BARONESS BURDETT-CoUTTs and her still
youthful husband have been forgiven for
marrying by the Queen, and will move
Jack into court favor.
MAYOR ROCHE, of Chicago, is a practical
machinist, having served an apprentice
ship at the trade, and makes good use Of
this knowledge in his new position.
Mr.. ANDREW CARNEGIE furnishes most
OF the funds for an exploring expedition,
to Lake Chad, in Central Africa, soon to
start under the lead of Joseph Manson.
WHY doesn't some enterprising furri-
ture builder construct q chair suited to
that prevailing female deformity known
es the bustles asks the Rochester Union.
CAMEL's hair shawls, which for q long
while seem to have been relegated to dow
ayers, have again made their appearance
as carriage wraps at the watering places.
A BOONE COUNTY Ia.) preacher kicks be-
cause newspaper there publishes Tai
mage's sermons each week, claiming that
they dissatisfy the congregation with his
sermons.
A COMPANY has been incorporated in Illi-
nois with capital stock of 5000, 600 to
construct an underground railway be-
meath the city of Chicago, and connecting
1t with the suburbs.
SARATOGA is suffering from the popular
ity OF Mt McGregor. Nearly all the ex-
cursion parties pass through the former
place and go to Mt. McGregor to see the
place where General Grant died.
The State Department records show that
1000 passports have been issued in the
last three months, and it is estimated
that four-ffths Of the Americans who
visit Europe do not take passports.
The house in which Payne attempted to
murder Secretary Seward at the time Of
Idncoln's assassination is now offered for
sa2e. 1t has long been used as the head
quarters Of the Commissary- general.
The British Postmaster General is con-
sidering scheme for the use of the tele.
graph in connection with postal orders.
That is to say, payee Is to be advised by
wire Of the amount to his credit at given
post-ofiice.
WHITMAN COUNTY, w. T., has the small
est woman living. She resides three miles
from Pine City, is twenty-seven years old,
twenty-nine inches high, and weighs thir-
ty-three pounds.
THE Atlanta Constitution says: ssChicago
can no longer aspire to rival New York
rs the fastest city in America. 1t required
two whole years for the entire board of
commissioners in Chicago to steal ono
million dollars.
The arrest Of Miss Josie Holmes, late ex-
change clerk of the Fidelity National
Bank, OF Cincinnati, is the first case in the
history OF the national banking system in
which woman has been arrested for vio-
lation Of the law.